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N948B

Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-B

Valid Electric gliderTexas

N948B is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-B, a glider with no engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Spring, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated March 16, 1982.

Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch

Aircraft

Maker
Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
Model
VENTUS-B
Serial number
56
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1981
Transponder code
AD2AF9 (octal 53225371)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 17, 2024
Expires
July 31, 2031
Last FAA action
July 17, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · March 16, 1982
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00900011

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gordon Zach Edward
Type
Individual
Address
31230 Lockshire Valley Ln
Spring, TX 77386-4315

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1965-09-03Beech 23 · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data